Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chow-chow kootu / chayote lentil stew. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew is something which I have loved my whole life.
This curry, as light and healthy as it is, features in our menu at least once a week. In both methods, you cook the lentils and chow chow or chayote together, and then flavor it with a different base. Chow Chow or the Indian Chayote is also known as Bangalore Brinjal, Cho Cho etc.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chow-chow kootu / chayote lentil stew using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew:
- Make ready 2 Chayote
- Prepare 1 cup moong dal
- Take 300 ml water
- Make ready 1 tbsp ghee
- Prepare 1 tsp mustard seeds
- Get 5 curry leaves
- Prepare to taste salt
- Make ready 1 handful coconut scrapings
- Prepare 1 tbsp cumin jeera /
- Get 7 chillies dry red
Chow Chow Kootu with Moong Dal - Chayote Squash Lentil Stew. Easy and quick recipe for Chow Chow Kootu with Moong Dal. Chow-Chow (Merakai) cooked with lentils and simmered with coconut and cumin seeds. This is an everyday lentil - Chow Chow Kootu recipe.
Steps to make Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew:
- Cook 1 cup of moong dal(add water until the moong dal submerges or about 200 ml) in pressure cooker up to 4 whistles or cook it in microwave for 15 minutes in high power.
- Peel and chop the chow-chow or chayote into small cubes and put it ina vessel. Add enough water and cook this on medium heat. Sprinkle little salt for the chow-chow to cook faster.
- Take the ingredients mentioned under "For the paste" in a blender jar, add little water(about 6 tbsps) and grind this to smooth paste. It should look like a chutney.
- Now check if the chow-chow- or chayote is cooked by inserting a knife, if it goes in easily then it is cooked. Now add the cooked moong dal and the ground paste to this and mix. Let it boil for about 6 minutes. Keep stirring do not leave this boiling continuously on medium heat. At this stage it will easily stick to the bottom of the vessel and burn, Keep stirring in equal intervals.
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- Take the kootu off the heat and take a tadka pan, on medium heat, crackle 1 tsp of mustard seeds and curry leaves in a tablespoon of ghee. Add this to the kootu and mix.
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Chayote kootu is easy to prepare. In the meantime, fry the spices and prepare the coconut paste for the kootu/stew. This Chow Chow kootu was one of the recipes suggested. So I decided to start off with it. It is a mild dish, where the chow chow or Chayote is cooked with lentils and then simmered in a coconut paste.
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